Contents

   Translator’s Preface to the English Version

   PART 1 IDEOLOGY OF THE PRE-QIN PERIOD

   Introduction to the Society and Ideology of the Pre-Qin

   Period

   Chapter 1 Chinese Ideology from the Earliest Times to the

   Spring and Autumn Period

    1. The Germination of Ideology in the Primitive Society Before

    the Xia Dynasty

    2. Ideology from the Xia Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn

    Period

    3. Confucius and the Early Confucians

   Chapter 2 Ideology of the Warring States Period (1)

    1. Ideology of the Early Mohists

    2. The Ideology of Yang Zhu

    3. The Ideology of Mencius

    4. The Ideology of Xun Zi

    5. The Ideology of the Yin-Yang School

    6. The Ideology of the Legalist School

   Chapter 3 Ideology of the Warring States Period (11)

    1. The Ideology of the Taoist School--Lao Zi, Song Xing and

    Yin Wen

    2. The Ideology of the Taoist School--Zhuang Zi

    3. The Ideology of the Dialecticians

    4. The Ideology of the Strategists--Sun Wu, Wu Qi and Sun

    Bin

    5. The Merging of the Hundred Schools and the LU ’s Spring and

    Autumn Annals

   Chapter 4 Economic, Scientific, Historical and Literary

    Ideas in Ancient Times

    1. Economic Ideas in Ancient Times

    2. Scientific Ideas in Ancient Times

    3. Historical Ideas in Ancient Times

    4. Literary Ideas in Ancient Times

    PART 11 IDEOLOGY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

    General Sketch of the Early Middle Ages

   Chapter 5 Ideology in the Qin and Han Period

    1. The Autocratic Ideas of the Qin Dynasty

    2. The Taoist Ideology in the Early Han Period

    3. Dong Zhongshu and the Spread of Theological Ideas

    4. Wang Chong and the Ideological Current of the Later Han

    Dynasty

    5. Revolutionary Ideas of the Peasants Uprisings in Qin and

    Han

   Chapter 6 Economic Thoughts in the Han Period

    1. The Economic Thoughts of Jia Yi and Chao Cuo

    2. The Economic Thoughts of Sang Hongyang

    3. The Economic Reforms of Wang Mang

    4. Economic Thoughts in the Eastern Han

   Chapter 7 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas in

    the Han Period

    1. Scientific Ideas in the Han Period

    2. Historiographic Ideas in the Han Period

    3. Literary Ideas in the Han Period

   Chapter 8 Ideology in the Wei, Jin and Southern and

    Northern Dynasties

    1. Political Thoughts in the Wei and Jin

    2. The Metaphysical and Anti-Metaphysical Currents in the

    Wei and Jin

    3. Buddhist and Taoist Thoughts and the Anti-Buddhist Cur-

    rent

    4. The Formation and Propagation of Taoism

   Chapter 9 Economic Thoughts in the Wei, Jin and Southern

    and Northern Dynasties

    1. The Economic Thoughts of Fu Xuan

    2. Lu Bao’s On the God of Money

    3. The Distribution of Farmland in Western Jin

    4. The Farmland Policy of Northern Wei

   Chapter 10 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas

    in the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties

    1. Scientific Ideas

    2. Historiographic Ideas

    3. Literary Ideas

   Chapter 11 Political and Philosophical Thoughts in the Sui,

    Tang and Five Dynasties

    1. Political Thoughts in Sui and Early Tang

    2. Buddhism, Taoism and the Anti-Buddhist Current

    3. The Thoughts of Han Yu and Li Ao

    4. The Thoughts of Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi

    5. Revolutionary Ideas and Progressive Ideologues

   Chapter 12 Economic Thoughts in the Tang Period

    1. The Economic Thoughts of Liu Yan

    2. The Economic Thoughts of Yang Yan

   Chapter 13 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas

    in the Sui and Tang Dynasties

    1. Scientific Ideas

    2. Historiographic Ideas

    3. Literary Ideas

    PART III IDEOLOGY IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

    General Sketch of the Later Middle Ages

   Chapter 14 Philosophical and Religious Thoughts in the

    Song and Yuan Dynasties

    1. Neo-Confucianism of the Cheng-Zhu School

    2. Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan

    3. Zhang Zai and the Guan School

    4. Utilitarian Ideas of Chen Liang and Ye Shi

    5. Taoist Thoughts in Song and Yuan

   Chapter 15 Social Thoughts in the Song and Yuan Period

    1. Social Thoughts of Li Gou and Deng Mu

    2. Wang Anshi and His Ideas of Reform

    3. Peasants’ Revolutionary Ideas in Song and Yuan

   Chapter 16 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas

    in Song and Yuan

    1. Scientific Ideas in Song and Yuan

    2. Historiographic Ideas in Song and Yuan

    3. Literary Ideas in Song and Yuan

   Chapter 17 Philosophical Thoughts in the Ming and Qing

    Dynasties

    1. Wang Yangming and His School

    2. The Philosophy of Wang Fuzhi

    3. The Philosophy of Dai Zhen

   Chapter 18 Political and Social Thoughts in the Ming and

    Qing Dynasties

    1. Huang Zongxi and Tang Zhen

    2. Gu Yanwu, Yan Yuan and Li Gong

    3. The High Tide of Han Learning in the Qing Period

    4. Economic Thoughts in Ming and Qing

    5. Peasants’ Revolutionary Ideas in Late Ming

   Chapter 19 Scientific, Historiographic and Literary Ideas

    in Ming and Qing

    1. Scientific Ideas and the Introduction of Western Knowledge

    2. Historiographic Ideas in Ming and Qing

    3. Thoughts in the Literary Works of Ming and Qing

    PART IV CHINESE IDEOLOGY IN MODERN TIMES

    Preliminary Remarks on Modern Society and Modern Ideol-

    ogy

   Chapter 20 Ideology in the Time of the Opium War and the

    Taiping Rebellion

    1. Ideological Trends in the Time of the Opium War

    2. Ideology of the Taiping Movement

   Chapter 21 Ideology in the 1870s and 1890s

    1. Birth of the Early New Learning School

    2. Guo Songtao and the New Learning School

    3. Ideology of the Early New Learning School

   Chapter 22 Ideology of the Reform Movement of 1898

    1. The Reform Movement and the Thought of Kang Youwei

    2. The Thought of Tan Citong

    3. The Thought of Liang Qichao

    4. The Thought of Yan Fu

   Chapter 23 Thougbt at the Time of the 1911 Revolution

    1. Democratic Revolutionary Ideology Before the Revolution

    2. The Development of Sun Yat-sen’s Thought

    3. Schools of Thought and Ideological Struggles Following the

    1911 Revolution

    4. The New Culture Movement on the Eve of the May Fourth

    Movement

   Chapter 24 Modern Social, Economic, Scientific, Historio-

    graphic and Literary Thoughts

    1. Modern Social and Economic Thoughts

    2. Modern Scientific Thoughts

    3. Modern Historiographic Thoughts

    4. Modern Literary Thoughts

   The Idea ofNatural Rights in China: A Historical Perspective

   Chronological Table of Chinese Dynasties

   Selected Bibliography

   Notes

   Index